According toThe Daily Beast, Ivana Trump originally used the term “rape” to describe a vicious encounter with her ex-husband that took place in 1989. She has since tempered her language and issued the following—albeit elliptical—statement:

“[On] one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a ‘rape,’ but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”

In his book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, Harry Hurt III chronicles a ferocious assault in which Trump forcibly penetrates his wife after “[pulling] out fistfuls of hair from her scalp.” Ivana Trump’s statement appears at the start of Hurt’s book, but it was issued by Trump and his lawyers. The details, however murky, do not shine a favorable light on Mr. Trump.